Stop Cash Shrink

The Trump administration’s top fiscal official appeared to voice support for letting marijuana businesses store their profits in banks.

“I assure you that we don’t want bags of cash,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testified on Tuesday during an appearance before the House Financial Services Committee. “We want to make sure that we can collect our necessary taxes and other things.”

Mnuchin, in a series of responses to questions from lawmakers who raised concerns about the public safety implications of preventing cannabis businesses from accessing banks and forcing them to operate on an all-cash basis, said the Treasury Department is currently considering how to deal with the issue.